IPod cycles through songs

My iPod will often times cycle through, show the song titles then reset itself to the menu screen BUT NOT PLAY THE SONGS. I see the song titles going by on the screen, wait for the songs to start but that's it, they don't start.
What's happening?
Frustrated in Mexico City

Try restoring your iPod.

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When a song is selected to play, the Ipod simply goes to that song then starts cycling through every song in the playlist without playing anything. Anyone have an answer?
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Have you had a chance to look at these troubleshooting pages? They may be of some help:
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Mine did that too. I don't know why it happened, but I restored it to factory settings, reloaded all my songs, and now it works fine.

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I have updated everything.
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Does this happen to your entire collection, or just a playlist?
The reason I ask is,I just solved the same problem that cropped up today on my 3rd Gen iPod.
I purchased 13 songs yesterday with a gift certificate. I created a playlist called "new iTunes" on the iPod. The tracks played fine just this morning (off the iPod itself). This afternoon, they only played through iTunes when the iPod was connected to my computer. Otherwise, the playlist just scrolled like you're describing.
The weird thing was, even if I selected an individual song through the "Songs" or "Artists" menu, it would go back and scroll through the playlist. So I tried deleting the playlist in iTunes.
Now it seems to work fine. Not sure what happened... corrupted playlist maybe? Perhaps deleting the playlist broke the connection between them or something.
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When I try to play any song in the "purchased" or "newly added" playlists on my wife's nano pod it cycles through all of the song titles. I cannot get it to play any of the songs I select. It just continues to cycle through all of the titles. I know this is a malfunction because my 30gig Ipod does not function like this. I can select and play any song in any playlist. I'm thinking perhaps there is a setting I need to change.
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It doesn't sound like a settings issue to me.
Try resetting the iPod by toggling Hold on and off, then holding Menu adn Select for 6-10 seconds until Apple logo shows up.
If that doesn't work, make sure it has the most up-to-date software (version 1.1.1 released 3-23).
If the problem continues, try restoring the iPod through the iPod Updater. This will wipe the iPod's memory clean, so you'll have to re-put the songs onto the iPod through iTunes.
I hope this helps!

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Try resetting it by first toggling the hold switch on and then off (orange not showing). Then press the Menu and center select button at the same time; pressing and holding them until the Apple logo comes up, then release them. Once the menu comes back try and play a song. If it doesn't work at first, try it again and this time with the iPod connected to a power source.

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Have a go at the usual way of resetting of the iPod.
If this doesn't work try to reset it while it is connected directly to a socket, then enter the main menu if you can. Then go into disk mode by resetting it - holding the select and play buttons and hold. It should go into disk mode and you can hook it up to the computer and let it recharge.
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Here is the best work around I have found so far.
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3/ Under Actions for 'Music' select "Get specified iTunes items" and drag this into the workflow area.
4/ Using the "Get specified iTunes items" widget in the workflow area, press the "add" button.
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Try:
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- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
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